Meaning

(obsolete) A basket..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A basket.
2. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
3. (obsolete) A delicacy.
4. A feast or banquet.
5. A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
6. (film) Ellipsis of press junket.
7. (gambling) A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
8. (intransitive, dated) To attend a junket; to feast.

Example Sentences

I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly […].

The Sunday ended in gloom, which even junket for supper in the blue Dresden bowl could hardly lighten at all.

[…] though bride and bridegroom wants For to supply the places at the table, You know there wants no junkets at the feast.

Goe streight, and take with thee to witnesse it / Sixe of thy fellowes of the best array, / And beare with you both wine and juncates fit, / And bid him eate […].

Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least […].

We're often in waiting / At junket or feting, / And sometimes attend an interment—

It did strike him as odd, perhaps, that merchants did not dare to go on a junket or plan a congenial dinner without pretending to themselves that it had some business significance.

An entertainment reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Freeman made comments about her skirt and her legs during two different junkets.

Word Forms

• junkets
• junketing
• junketting
• junketed
• junketted

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